No designer thinks in one file type.
Every designer has a dozen tabs open. PEGS holds the whole project including images, video, 3D, PDFs, URLs, and text natively. No workarounds.
Open the tabs on any designer's laptop an hour into a project. There's a Figma file. A Pinterest board. A folder of reference photos. A PDF the client sent that has one useful page buried on page 34. A YouTube link to a commercial that nails the mood. A 3D render somebody on the team kicked over in Slack. A single Google Slides Doc with 15 different briefs in a row. A Dropbox link that expired.
That's the project. All of it. Not one of those things is optional, and not one of those things lives in the same place as the others.
So what does the designer do? They screenshot, export, drag stills out of videos. They flatten PDFs into JPGs. They paste links into a doc that nobody will open or a sticky note only they can access. They build a Frankenstein's-monster in whatever tool happens to be open, and they spend more time transcoding their assets into different formats than they spend thinking about the project itself.
We kept watching this happen to ourselves, to friends, to the teams we respect and the pattern got harder to ignore. Every tool on the market has picked a lane. Figma is for UI. Miro is for whiteboards. Frame.io is for video. Notion is for text. Each of them is excellent at the one thing. Each of them treats everything else like a second-rate asset.
But design doesn't work in lanes. A product pitch holds renders, reference photos, competitor screenshots, a video walkthrough, and a spec PDF and it holds them at the same time, because the argument only makes sense when they're next to each other. Treating all assets as a primary asset (why Google Drive is so useful) is the only way to embrace the chaotic workflow of creatives.
PEGS started from a simple tenant. The board had to hold whatever the project held. Images, video, 3D, PDFs, URLs, rich text all natively, in full fidelity, at full scale. Not as thumbnails. Not as embeds that break. Not as "preview only." As the actual thing.
Because the moment you make a designer transcode their inputs to fit your tool, you've already lost the thread. The screenshot of the video isn't the video. The flattened PDF isn't the PDF. The Pinterest link copied into a text box isn't the reference. Every translation step is a small lie, and design is a discipline where the small lies greatly impact the end result.
That's the bar. That's the product.
A designer doesn't think in one file type. Their tools shouldn't ask them to.